The impression that the Pittman resolution was doomed along with all similar proposals appears to be general in Congressional circles, yet the Nevada Senator, who is Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, declared his resolution would not be withdrawn.
"The Foreign Relations Committee is merely awaiting a report from the Secretary of state, Mr. Cordel! Hull, before slying the resolution further consideration," he said.
Some isolationist members of Congress fear such an act would provoke retaliation and eventually involve the United States in hostilities in the Orient. However, a partial poll revealed that a large bie of Senators remained favourably inclined towards the proposal.
Senator Claude Pepper. Florida Democrat, said he was hopeful the resolution might be adopted at the present session. He said he felt that the proposal put forward by Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, Michigan Republican, to call a conference of the signatories of the Nine-Power Treaty was "ridiculous."
London, July 20.
The British Dominions Office and Eire authorities are jointly inclose watch on all visiting Germans, including one with a- university degree who attemptd to contact IRA. terrorists and other Republican organizations, Police also were said to have discovered another German student who has been closely. associated "win a man who was one of the signatories of the IRA: proclamation which heralded me recent outrages in England. The odd phrase ing and curious construction of letters printed in weekly newspapers in Eire, expressing iprosentiments, that the writers German and strong anti-British
were neither Irish nor English, the report said.
Local newspapers today reported the names and. featured the descriptions of nearly 60 spies operating in
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